Pat Buchanan: Good Riddance To Bad Rubbish
The late great Molly Ivins commented after Pat Buchanan’s keynote address at the 1992 Republican National Convention that “it probably sounded better in the original German.”
As people given thousands of hours of face time on cable news go, Buchanan was as vile as they come: A virulent homophobe, racist, anti-Semite and apologist for Hitler, who . . . um, was misunderstood and the U.S. should have fought on his side in The Big One.
And so I took some satisfaction when MSNBC dropped Buchanan on Thursday four months after suspending him following the publication of his latest book, Suicide of a Superpower, which contained scrumdiddlyumtious chapters titled “The End of White America” and “The Death of Christian America.”
As is typical of vile people like Buchanan, he denies that he loathes gays, Jews and blacks, and was quick to denounce MSNBC, his employer for 10 years, as having bowed to us mean libruls.
22 Responses to “Pat Buchanan: Good Riddance To Bad Rubbish”
We really need Molly Ivins now. She died much too young.
Mr. Buchanan is another matter. This opinionated reactionary will probably continue to pollute the nation for years to come. He is certain to find a home at Fox News.
I can only judge PB by his performances The McLaughlin Group, and not to defend his other stuff, I sometimes agree with his point of view.
So does that need to be translated into the original German.
Buchanan seems to behave better when he’s on the McLaughlin Group. I think he’s a little afraid of Eleanor Clift.
Yup, we lost Molly Ivins much too early, no doubt about it.
I knew Molly Ivins and in person she was drop-dread funny.
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dduck:
Well, I sometimes agreed with Hitler’s point of view like building the Autobahn, but this did not make him — or makes Buchanan — less vile.
“I sometimes agreed with Hitler’s point of view like building the Autobahn,”
please refrain from saying such things inside of Europe.
I like dogs.
Hitler liked dogs.
But I’ll never say I agreed with Hitler about anything. That kind of talk will get you in trouble!
OK, go ahead and cook my goose, SM, but what about the Volkswagen.
And yes, Mussolini made the trains run on time, etc., etc.
Yep, and me and Charles Manson have the same favorite ice cream flavor, and we both enjoy guitar music. These things do happen.
The Hitler card:
No one wants to be associated with Nazism because it has been so thoroughly discredited in both theory and practise, and Hitler of course was its most famous exponent. So, linking an idea with Hitler or Nazism has become a common form of argument ascribing guilt by association. http://www.fallacyfiles.org/adnazium.html
dduck:
So that would make Buchanan guilty as sin, or what?
I’ve seen Buchanan on MSNBC and usually thought he was funny and so wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt I went on Amazon and read the customer reviews of his book.
Let me tell you, his fans are a lot scarier than he is! The white supremacy movement is alive and well in America.
His fans are wacko. Similar to fans of Limbaugh/Hannity. Perhaps even the fans of Olberman/Maddow…
“Perhaps even the fans of Olberman/Maddow”
Olbermann and Maddow don’t even come close to defending Hitler, JDave. They have strong opinions that some might consider extreme, but excusing the Holocaust and trying to take over the world as a misunderstanding of a great leader is way out of the range of things they would consider saying.
SM, yes, if he grew a little mustache.
How’d you like that little stab at false equivalence eh? Fun stuff!!!
Btw, I think John McLaughlin deliberately pushes Buchanan’s buttons for entertainment.
And you want me to go to the latest Tom Cruise movie?
“Look at the drug methadone. That was originally called Adolophine.”
The lefts hitler is the rights stalin and the lefts facist is the rights communists both sides over use it to stifle conversation. Well until Beck decided to re-write history and blame facism on the left…still not sure who will blame communism on the right but I am sure it is only a matter of time.
Olberman is a screamer yes but Maddow is more like WF Buckley, she is much more interested in open debate and allowing the opposition to hang itself intellectually rather than trying to shove a rope around your neck before you know whats what.
I actually enjoy Buchanan’s opinions and other than the classic social con issues I usually agree more with him than I do post Reagan members of the GOP, paleo-cons did have some ideas to offer. Having said that I have waited for a few decades for being a bigot to be viewed worse than accusing someone of being a bigot, a nice switch that Rush and his ilk made there…
“no torch and kkk hood, no racism.”
Looks like it has finally happened. Sharpton is finally acceptable for TV and now Buchanan is not, guess you reap what you sow huh.
Rush has cleverly taken every fault one could find on the right and asserted the left practices it. This means he must observe what the right’s faults are – and uses them to MAKE MONEY. How can he lose?
Sharpton may be a bigot, but he’s a smart bigot; though why MSNBC gave him prime time is puzzling. Of course Buchanan is a smart bigot, also.
I’d still prefer to hear Pat than Al speak on any subject. At least Pat has no outstanding judgements against him.
To me Al is just boring. Much like Jesse Jackson they are both men of a bygone era constantly grasping at straws to stay relevant and since I fail to suffer from white guilt nor did I have to live through the civil rights struggle he sounds like a martian to me.
Of course we are comparing apples to oranges here in reality. Al only has a show because he helped push through a merger for MSNBC’s parent company and Buchanan doesnt have a bargaining chip that big.
It is merely Al’s Comcast sponsored payoff and it has nothing at all to do with ratings, relevance or talent. Buchanan on the other hand is out of step with the nations racial temperament from the 80′s no less now and tends to be offensive in a very David Duke way to MSNBC’s core demographics. I fail to see Fox News hiring Noam Chomsky no less keeping him around very long.
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